Associations to the word «Punning»

Wiktionary

PUN, verb. (transitive) To beat; strike with force; ram; pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder.
PUN, noun. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
PUN, verb. To make or tell a pun; make a play on words.

Dictionary definition

PUN, noun. A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her".
PUN, verb. Make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King